Nobel Prize in Physics: how the first exoplanet around a sun-like star was discovered
Click:dry scalp treatment The 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for “contributions to our understanding of the evolution of the universe and Earth’s place in the cosmos”. Half the prize went to cosmologist Jim Peebles, and the other half was awarded jointly to Michel Mayor and my colleague Didier Queloz for the first discovery…
The Marines Are Changing the Way They Do Business
From Popular Mechanics The Marine Corps is reorganizing itself as it reorients from the guerrilla wars of the 2000s to face off against Russia and China. Marine vehicles will add to the firepower of the surface fleet, both in offense and defense. The Marines will also change how they use drones, moving from replacing people…
Thousands of tarantulas are emerging from the ground in the San Francisco Bay Area, looking for mates
Click Here: liverpool mens jersey A spate of warm weather in the San Francisco Bay Area has extended the tarantula mating season. Hikers have reportedly sen male spiders skittering across paths in search of females. Tarantulas, though creepy-looking to some people, are not dangerous to humans. Visit Business Insider’s homepage for more stories. Every year…
Arizona Official Smuggled Pregnant Women Into the U.S. and Paid Them to Give Up Their Babies: Authorities
An Arizona official faces charges in two states for his alleged role in an international adoption fraud scheme that involved smuggling pregnant women into the U.S. from the Marshall Islands and then paying them to give up their babies, according to court documents. Maricopa County Assessor Paul Petersen was charged Tuesday night with 11 felony…
Arizona Official Placed 29 Babies in Adoption Fraud Scheme, Prosecutors Say
He offered each of the expecting mothers $10,000 to put their newborns up for adoption, siphoning off money for housing and health care after arranging for them to travel more than 5,000 miles from the Marshall Islands to the United States, prosecutors said. Then, after falsifying their residency records to enroll them in state health…
Politician charged in human trafficking adoption scheme
PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona elected official ran a human smuggling scheme that promised pregnant women thousands of dollars to lure them from a Pacific Island nation to the U.S., where they were crammed into houses to wait to give birth, sometimes with little to no prenatal care, prosecutors allege. Paul Petersen, the Republican assessor…
Russia Has a Terrifying Seaborne Nuclear Weapon
Key point: Moscow’s deadly weapon is pointless but is still apart of mutually-assured-destruction. On May 22, 2018, the Russian submarine Yuri Dolgoruky slipped beneath the waves of the Arctic White Sea. Hatches along the submerged boat’s spine opened, flooding the capacious tubes beneath. Moments later, an undersea volcano seemingly erupted from the depths. Amidst roiling smoke,…
Somalia, Kenya Row Escalates After Alleged Breach of Air Space
(Bloomberg) — Somalia summoned Kenya’s ambassador after a Kenyan-registered plane landed in the port city of Kismayo in the southern state of Jubaland without “official permission,” amid a simmering maritime-border dispute between the neighbors. Jubaland won some political autonomy in 2013 and is among Somalia states jostling for more autonomy and control over oil, gas…
Pentagon officials deemed withholding of aid to Ukraine was illegal
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon was confused. Hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid to Ukraine had been appropriated in late 2018 by Congress, intended to help fend off aggression by neighboring Russia. But well into 2019, as summer was edging toward autumn, the funds had still not moved. Department of Defense officials began to…
Egypt discovers archaeological industrial zone in Luxor's 'Valley of the Monkeys'
LUXOR, Egypt (Reuters) – Egypt on Thursday unveiled two archaeological discoveries in Luxor including an industrial zone at the southern city’s West Valley, also known as the Valley of the Monkeys. Egyptian archaeologists have discovered 30 workshops in the industrial area, the Ministry of Antiquities said in a statement. The area is “composed of houses…